Books by Joyce Purnick

Joyce Purnick has written the twice-weekly Metro Matters column for The New York Times since 1999. Prior to this, she wrote the Metro Matters column from 1994 until becoming deputy editor of Metro. From 1989 until 1994, Ms. Purnick served on the paper's editorial board, writing opinion essays on urban affairs. Her Metro Matters column has won several awards, including the Mike Berger Award from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She is also the recipient the 1987 Peter Kihss Award for reporting on city government, given by the Fund for the City of New York, and a 1979 Front Page Award from the Newswomen's Club of New York for political columns in New York magazine (where she worked before she joined The Times), and awards in 1975 from the Newspaper Guild and the Newswomen's Club of New York for feature writing at The New York Post, where she worked from 1970 to 1978, rising from news clerk to chief political writer. She lives in Manhattan.